Quotes about death
death overcoming finding-god
You must overcome death by finding God in it. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
death running unhappy
When any living thing has come to the end of its cycle, we accept that end as natural. When that intangible cycle has run its course it is a natural and not unhappy thing that a life comes to its end. Rachel Carson
death life-and-love past
When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away. Rabindranath Tagore
death men order
If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?
death lamps dawn
Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.
death giving coins
Death's stamp gives value to the coin of life; making it possible to buy with life what is truly precious.
death mother night
The night kissed the fading day With a whisper: "I am death, your mother, From me you will get new birth."
death humorous flames
Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.
death song hero
Sing your death song and die like a hero going home. Tecumseh
death aunt pet
We died like aunts of pets or foreigners. Randall Jarrell
death thinking red
If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways, I keep and pass and turn again. Ralph Waldo Emerson
death real fall
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed as a result. Maybe we'll soon find out that the self isn't "flat" either, and that death is as real and yet as deceptive as the horizon; that we don't fall out of life either. Seth
death integrity important
Your Integrity is more important than your immediate Life. L. Ron Hubbard
death dying wells
If it's peace you find in dying, well then let the time be near. Laura Nyro
death thinking challenges
I think on death as the apparent end of the illusions that encompass us. They all have a sudden and unexpected end, that challenges any faith we have pinned to their worth. Vachel Lindsay
death dying toil
For the dead there are no more toils. Sophocles
death drawing enough
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life.
death men want
When a man has died, he wants you to know about it. Stephen King
death monsters
Death is when the monsters get you.
death love-is inspire
My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it. Sophie Swetchine
death struggle men
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth - look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment. Soren Kierkegaard
death passion light
Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.
death tyrants political
The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.
death twilight way
Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Stephenie Meyer
death ephemeral remember
Everything is ephemeral, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Marcus Aurelius
death thoughtful maturity
Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.
death science perception
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
death dying tests
The constant recollection of death is the test of human conduct.
death if-there-is-a-god wells
It were well to die if there be gods, and sad to live if there be none.
death men names
Can we wonder that men perish and are forgotten, when their noblest and most enduring works decay? Death comes even to monumental structures, and oblivion rests on the most illustrious names.
death believe heaven
If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the bodies that have been buried in it? The answers are the same. Just as on earth, with the passage of time, decaying and transmogrified corpses make way for the newly dead, so souls released into the heavens, after a season of flight, begin to break up, burn, and be absorbed back into the womb of reason, leaving room for souls just beginning to fly. This is the answer for those who believe that souls survive death.
death philosophical secret
Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.
death philosophical dying
Despise not death, but welcome it, for nature wills it like all else.